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Current Psychiatry Reports
Erschienen in: Current Psychiatry Reports 12/2018

01.12.2018 | Personality Disorders (K Bertsch, Section Editor)

Sex Differences in Personality Disorders

verfasst von: Barbara Schulte Holthausen, Ute Habel

Erschienen in: Current Psychiatry Reports | Ausgabe 12/2018

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

This review aims to give an overview on the current literature on sex differences in personality disorders and to highlight the potential of dimensional approaches.

Recent Findings

Empirical findings on sex differences in personality disorders are inconsistent and appear to be highly dependent on study settings. Current studies have mainly focused on borderline and antisocial personality disorder and the question whether these are sex-specific representations of a common substrate. In general, sexes differ in the manifestation of personality disorders as well as in comorbidities. Criticism of the established categorical model led to an additional dimensional model of personality disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.

Summary

Investigations on sex differences in personality disorders are sparse and mainly limited to antisocial and borderline personality disorder. The introduction of a dimensional model offers the chance to re-think the construct of “personality disorder” and thereby also opens the possibility for a better understanding of sex differences.
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Metadaten
Titel
Sex Differences in Personality Disorders
verfasst von
Barbara Schulte Holthausen
Ute Habel
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2018
Verlag
Springer US
Erschienen in
Current Psychiatry Reports / Ausgabe 12/2018
Print ISSN: 1523-3812
Elektronische ISSN: 1535-1645
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-018-0975-y

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